Replace require with import when migrating from webpacker to esbuild?

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I gave up webpacker and switched to esbuild One of my jsx files has a lot of require statements in it I think I have to swap them out for import statements?

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I’m not addressing your question but have you considered switching to shakapacker instead of esbuild? I’m in the process of doing that for a fairly big application and updating dependencies by multiple major versions:

  • Node 10 => 18
  • Webpack 3 => Webpack 5
  • Webpacker 3.6 => Shakapacker 7.1

It involved removing a lot of custom configuration which webpack/shakapacker added under the hood so my boilerplate config was no longer necessary